EU pressures firms to tackle online terrorism

The Court of Justice of the EU was asked to define Uber. The final ruling will likely have consequences for the whole sharing economy.

The EU's executive revealed some of the last-minute changes its officials made to the mid-term review of the digital single market strategy.

The US said Russia was behind the Macron hack, but one cyber expert is less sure, saying that German elections and EU journalists were in Moscow's crosshairs.

EU leaders said there would be almost a million ICT vacancies by 2015, and made digital skills a priority, but in reality the number of vacancies was much lower.

Uber says national regulations are often outdated, but taxi drivers still see the app as unfair competition.

The US company promises no longer to require e-book publishers to inform them of better deals by competitors.

A parliamentary committee says entrepreneurs, consumers and the authorities are confused about how to apply existing rules to the so-called sharing economy.

The European Commission wants to upgrade the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications into an agency, but both the parliament and member states are against it.

The front-runners of digitalisation in Europe fear they could lose their positions, unless there is faster progress on the implementation of the European digital single market.

A large majority supports giving out subsidies to European cities and municipalities to help them set up wireless internet hotspots.

A Swedish group helping people to take the fight against online hate and lies had busy days after the recent terrorist attack in Stockholm.

A report by British MPs said it cannot rule out that a cyber attack caused a voter registration website to crash, but also admitted it had "no direct evidence" of Russian or Chinese influence.